Munro Lecture - Professor Sylvia Yanagisako: 'Family, private property and the Aloha State: Sea level rise, beach loss and family legacies in Hawai’i' Image Rapid warming of the atmosphere and oceans as a result of two centuries of carbon emissions has increased the rate of sea level rise and its threat to natural environments and human populations on low-lying coasts around the world. As the only state in the U.S. that is an archipelago of islands, Hawai`i is especially vulnerable to sea level rise. Over the past twenty years Hawai`i has lost 25% of its beaches, and these continue to erode and are at risk of being permanently lost if hard structures such as seawalls impede their landward migration. Hawai`i state law currently prohibits the erection of new seawalls, but private property owners have continued to reinforce and expand them both illegally and legally by taking advantage of loopholes in the state’s laws and policies. This lecture approaches the conflict in Hawai’i over seawalls and other hard armoring of the seashore from the anthropology of kinship. It traces how family legacies of property ownership and seashore usage shape the ways in which people in Hawai`i respond to seashore management policies. It explores the seashore in the era of global warming as a productive site for studying both the physical and the conceptual boundaries between private property, public property and the commons. Professor Sylvia Yanagisako Image Sylvia Yanagisako is the Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies and Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, of Stanford University. She is currently Centennial Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her research and publications have focused on the cultural dynamics of kinship, gender, work and capitalism. Her publications include Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: a collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion (Duke University Press, 2019), co-authored with Lisa Rofel, and Producing Culture and Capital: Family Firms in Italy (Princeton University Press 2002). Oct 12 2023 17.15 - 19.00 Munro Lecture - Professor Sylvia Yanagisako: 'Family, private property and the Aloha State: Sea level rise, beach loss and family legacies in Hawai’i' The first Munro Lecture of the academic year will take place on Thursday 12 October, 2023. Appleton Tower, Lecture Theatre 1, 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE Find the venue Tickets (free)
Munro Lecture - Professor Sylvia Yanagisako: 'Family, private property and the Aloha State: Sea level rise, beach loss and family legacies in Hawai’i' Image Rapid warming of the atmosphere and oceans as a result of two centuries of carbon emissions has increased the rate of sea level rise and its threat to natural environments and human populations on low-lying coasts around the world. As the only state in the U.S. that is an archipelago of islands, Hawai`i is especially vulnerable to sea level rise. Over the past twenty years Hawai`i has lost 25% of its beaches, and these continue to erode and are at risk of being permanently lost if hard structures such as seawalls impede their landward migration. Hawai`i state law currently prohibits the erection of new seawalls, but private property owners have continued to reinforce and expand them both illegally and legally by taking advantage of loopholes in the state’s laws and policies. This lecture approaches the conflict in Hawai’i over seawalls and other hard armoring of the seashore from the anthropology of kinship. It traces how family legacies of property ownership and seashore usage shape the ways in which people in Hawai`i respond to seashore management policies. It explores the seashore in the era of global warming as a productive site for studying both the physical and the conceptual boundaries between private property, public property and the commons. Professor Sylvia Yanagisako Image Sylvia Yanagisako is the Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies and Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, of Stanford University. She is currently Centennial Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her research and publications have focused on the cultural dynamics of kinship, gender, work and capitalism. Her publications include Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: a collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion (Duke University Press, 2019), co-authored with Lisa Rofel, and Producing Culture and Capital: Family Firms in Italy (Princeton University Press 2002). Oct 12 2023 17.15 - 19.00 Munro Lecture - Professor Sylvia Yanagisako: 'Family, private property and the Aloha State: Sea level rise, beach loss and family legacies in Hawai’i' The first Munro Lecture of the academic year will take place on Thursday 12 October, 2023. Appleton Tower, Lecture Theatre 1, 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE Find the venue Tickets (free)
Oct 12 2023 17.15 - 19.00 Munro Lecture - Professor Sylvia Yanagisako: 'Family, private property and the Aloha State: Sea level rise, beach loss and family legacies in Hawai’i' The first Munro Lecture of the academic year will take place on Thursday 12 October, 2023.
